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Chax 2.0 Beta 1

November 9, 2007

The first beta of Chax for Leopard is finally finished! A complete list of features is listed below. While not every feature that was available for Chax for iChat 3 is back, I believe the current features represents the most commonly used parts of Chax. Barring any significant problems, a final release should be available early next week.Â Chax 2.0 will use a standard installer package rather than the custom installer previously used.Â SIMBLÂ is bundled in the installer, so Chax will now work out of the box.

Features:

Growl notifications for incoming messages and status changes

Activity log shows history of contact status changes

Built-in log viewer displays past conversations sorted by person

Customize contact list fonts

Display status changes directly in message windows

Automatically resize the contact list to fit visible contacts

Display buddy icon of message senders in the dock

Auto-accept text invitations

Fixes since alpha 3:

Extra Growl notifications no longer appear

Fixed possible visual bugs in the log viewer and contact list

Now distributed as a package installer bundled with SIMBL

Removed nonfunctional group font customization field

Update checker is now functional

Exporting logs from the log viewer works again

Fixed AV chats not being received properly

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I might be missing something but one favorite function of mine was that iChax could be set to automatically log back in if iChat were to get inadvertently disconnected. Any chance that will be implemented again?

had problem with video chatting with a friend on a new imac with leopard. we both have the same chax installed, and had to disable the plugsuit chax enabler to be able video chat….
odd.
still love chax…
thanks…

I’m seeing the same as a few other people, where I ran through the installer and it still doesn’t show up in iChat Preferences. I tried moving the Chax and SIMBL folders from /Libarary/InputManagers to ~/Library/InputManagers, but still no dice.
I’m rockin’ 10.5 (as you’d expect) but it is joined to a domain. Let me know if you need any other information. Thanks for your work, dude. This program is indispensable, and I can’t wait to see the new version.

okay, after reading all these comments, and trying to run this 2.0 Beta version of ICHAX, I have finally had it work properly on my laptop.

I figured I would share with everyone what I did, in hopes of it working out for you all that are having the same difficulties that I did.

-I have recently installed MAC OS X [LEOPARD].
-I have a MACBOOK laptop that i purchased within the past year.
-I had CHAX 1.5 installed in my system until I removed it today.

What I did to have CHAX work on my system:
-I searched in FINDER for any item entitled “CHAX 1.5.app”.
-Then I deleted this program from my system.
-I downloaded the 2.0 BETA CHAX package with SIMBL and installed it.
-I moved the files in your computer’s /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins to
your home library folder at: ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins.
-I then went to this following website to install PLUGSUIT into my system preferences.http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33346
-After installing PLUGSUIT, the CHAX application worked great. It showed up in my
ICHAT preferences and i was able to chat with it operating.

I really hope this helps people who were confused at first like me. But I want to say thanks to the creator of this program. Its awesome and I can’t live without it on my MAC.

You can set up custom keystrokes to change tabs within MacOS. Go to System Preferences –> Keyboard & Mouse –> Keyboard Shortcuts. Scroll down to the bottom of the list for “Application Keyboard Shortcuts” and select that. Now click the “+” button to add a new shortcut … Choose “iChat” for your application, type either “Previous Chat” or “Next Chat” as the menu title, and whatever keystroke you want to use … I used command-up and command-down, same as I had them set in the old version of Chax.

Until/unless Chax updates with more tab or keystroke options, this pretty much does the job.

If this has been asked before and cannot be done, I’ll accept the fact of course, but I wanted to ask, like Bodacious, is it possible to combine AIM and Jabber windows? Or at least be able to check on all the contacts in the menubar?

I had the same issues as everyone having Chax work… I took the advice of installing the latest Chax and that worked. Thanks for Chax. It appears that Apple found many of the features of the previous Chax significant enough to build them into the newest Ichat, but not all. Keep up the great work